The Misandry Bubble

The GK Futurist: The Misandry Bubble

Ref: The Futurist Blog, January 2010

“The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, and where male nature is vilified but female nature is celebrated.  This is unfair to both genders, and is a recipe for a rapid civilizational decline and displacement, the costs of which will ultimately be borne by a subsequent generation of innocent women, rather than men, as soon as 2020.”

In defense of moralists

Joseph Fouche:  An Uncomfortable Intimacy

Ref: ChicagoBoys, August 4th, 2010

“Increased complexity, Tainter argued, consumes increased energy. Some of this is caused by the intrinsic nature of institutional complexity. But a lot of it is caused by competing swarms of knaves simultaneously free riding off of the institutions, contributing to diminishing returns for the entire institution. Rules destroy persistent intimacy and shroud knavery. Rules increase energy consumption. They push institutions to the point that the moralists who bear their weight drop their load, opt out of complexity, and into simplicity, threatening whatever benefits complexity offers in the process.”

How Turkey was lost

Michael Rubin:  Turkey, from Ally to Enemy

Ref: Commentary Magazine, July/August 2010

“The fact is that Turkey has changed. Gone, and gone permanently, is secular Turkey, a unique Muslim country that straddled East and West and that even maintained a cooperative relationship with Israel. [...] Turkey is now more aligned to Iran than to the democracies of Europe. Whereas Iran’s Islamic revolution shocked the world with its suddenness in 1979, Turkey’s Islamic revolution has been so slow and deliberate as to pass almost unnoticed.”

Opinions as news don’t sell

Kenneth Anderson: The New York Times and the information theory of the leisure class

Ref: Kenneth Anderson’s Law of War and Just War Theory Blog, January 07, 2009

“Yet the Times threw in the “fact” towel before the battle was even joined, saw the future and decided it was in opinion writing asserted as fact in order both to charge a higher price than a mere opinion magazine could charge and seek to satisfy, at least superficially, the fact-based raison d’etre of the daily newspaper. It looked at its ‘elite’ readership and concluded that, at bottom, those readers were not very interested in facts, much less in paying for them. Instead they wanted high falutin’, high-gravitas chat based around politics. And so the Times has proceeded to offer it.”

America’s debt to China

James Fallows: The $1.4 Trillion Question

Ref: January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly

“This is the real meaning of the vast trade surplus—$1.4 trillion and counting, going up by about $1 billion per day—that the Chinese government has mostly parked in U.S. Treasury notes.”